Middletown Public Schools: Decision-Making for Results- The Role of leadership in building sustainability

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Middletown Public SchoolsDecision-Making for
Results-The Role of leadership in building
sustainability

• Curriculum and lesson planning (The what and the
  How)
• Assessment accountability
• Data Teams fitting the pieces together
• Climate next steps
• Questions

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Curriculum a way to create consistency
throughout the district

• Progression
• Used state document with priority standards to
  create curriculum and pacing guides (see
  handouts)
• We discovered we need to keep revisiting the
  curriculum and pacing guides. Each iteration
  improved on the product but also helped us better
  understand the process
• Now we have groups meetings at each grade level
  with their principals and their task till the end
  of the year is to finish the curriculum maps
• The final products will be team created

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Lesson plans The How we Implement the curriculum

• Initial Purpose was to get people to use the GLEs
  (to teach what they needed to teach and the same
  thing)
• Once we got everyone to use the GLEs we moved to
  other aspects of the lesson plan. We kept moving
  to a new aspect of the lesson plan as we mastered
  a section.
• Aspects that we mastered became business as
  usual. We moved from compliance to adherence.

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Assessment System

• Homegrown, Web-based System
• Secure (authentication required).
• Access to district, school, class roster
  individual student reports
• Multi-year functionality
• Incorporates State Local assessments into one
  snapshot
• Data team resources, i.e. Data Depot
• Ability to share CFAs, lesson plans other
  resources between schools

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TIER I TEMPLATES FOR PROGRESS MONITORING AT
DISTRICT LEVEL
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TIER II TEMPLATE FOR PROGRESS MONITORING AT
DISTRICT LEVEL
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Data teams

• Data teams are all about understanding the data
  and knowing where you need to go (asking the
  right questions)
• We Refined the process through leadership support
  (as the leadership understood better what the
  data was telling them, they were able to model
  and mentor the teaching staff)
• The quality of the leadership and the ability of
  the leader to understand the data is a key
  determinant of the success of implementation.
  Leaders need to understand the data and know
  where they need to go.

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Climate Our next challenge

• Initially climate arose out of discipline data,
  however we are addressing climate in more
  holistic fashion
• We need to follow the same process that we
  followed for curriculum recreating, reflecting
  and revising

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Climate cont.

• Currently we are engaged in an audit of our
  schools.
• Central office staff doing site visits to all
  schools to assess positive behavior supports and
  discipline procedures
• Professional development for 10/11 will focus on
  climate issues
• Using modified School-wide Evaluation Tool
  version 2.0, Sugai et al.2001

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In Summary

• We needed to recreate business as usual
• We recreated the curriculum and lesson plans and
  assessment data (You cant have data teams unless
  you have common data)
• When you have to move quickly, you have to get
  compliance before you can move forward next
  steps. Once we achieved compliance we we able to
  enter a period of stabilization
• Now that we have built capcity to understand we
  are working in the same directon, we are now
  going to recreate the climate

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Thanks you!

• Barbara Senges, Associate Superintendent
  sengesb_at_mps1.org
• Laurie Slade, Supervisor of Special
  Ed sladel_at_mps1.org
• Dr. Mindy Otis, Supervisor of Special
  Ed otism_at_mps1.org
• Jared Morin, Director of Technology
• morinj_at_mps1.org